{"id":59592,"date":"2015-05-02T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59592"},"modified":"2015-05-02T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:08:00","slug":"richard-stoops-the-perpetual-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59592","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stoops, the perpetual phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About five years ago, we first busted Richard “Dick” Stoops<\/a> for being a phony Korean War Ranger. He had fooled the Missouri National Guard with his tales of derring-do to the point that they let him back in the service after the Vietnam War, even though he was too old. The Missouri National Guard Hall of Fame were preparing to honor him, when we interceded with his records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two years ago<\/a>, he benefitted from an “Honor Flight” to DC, wearing a Purple Heart patch on his jacket – he arrived in Korea after hostilities had ended, so he has no Purple Heart. <\/p>\n

Anyway, he’s still at it, according to the Amarillo Globe News<\/a>, he was at a Veterans’ Affairs event to honor former POWs;<\/p>\n

Former VA leadership chose to hold the events on April 9 \u2014 Former POW Recognition Day \u2014 and POW\/MIA Recognition Day in September. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Some of the men were held for months, others years. One man kept track of his captivity down to the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for them, we wouldn\u2019t have our freedoms and our safety,\u201d Kingham said. \u201cIt\u2019s very humbling to hear their stories of what they\u2019ve gone through for those freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attendees were David Billings, Uell Carter, Scott Downing Jr., Sherman Jones, Odelle McAvoy, Alfred Shoffit, Clifford Solomon, Richard Stoops<\/strong>, Charles Sturgeon and Richard Trask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I guess he moved from Missouri to Texas and he’s started his little game all over again. I remember when we first busted him, his family told us that he was going to die if we went public with his lies. I guess they’re not worried about that anymore. His family knows he’s lying and they still help him to lie. The VA is honoring him, so it’s reasonable to assume that he’s getting POW benefits from the agency, even though Secretary Eric Shinseki told Senator Patty Murray that the VA had scrubbed their POW lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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